Tangential: I was watching free to air last night with my 7 year old (we both never watch TV) and she innocently asked “does everyone watching this show see the same ad”. I said yes and the look on her face said it all. Even at 7 she knew that non-targeted ads are stupid
Did you duly educate her that she already has a user profile being built within whatever apps and services you allow her to use?
There's surely a middle ground, but where we are ain't it.
Edit: I see you've already answered the similar reply. In that case, you're saying that non-targeted ads are stupid, but you're educating your children to input fake data. That doesn't compute...
Edit 2: First sentence should read "as a result of targeted advertising" rather than "to avoid targeted advertising". Sigh.
Is that a bad thing? I was perfectly capable of understanding what a viagra ad is and ignoring it when I was in elementary school. It doesn't take much. Imo all this parental control around sex is more about parents feeling uncomfortable than it is about kids being unable to understand it or somehow get "scarred" from it.
"A television re-broadcaster may sell local or regional advertising for broadcast only on the local transmitter. Rarely, they may air limited programming distinct from their parent station. Some "semi-satellites" broadcast local newscasts or separate news segments in part of a newscast."[0]
Usually they're the worst, and like the expenses associated with billing and hierocracy in the medical field, everyone would be better off with that bureaucratic effort not spent.
I'd say at best, they can inform you of something you need but didn't know existed, but even your "best" case is a valid use of advertising. And, yeah, a lot of advertising is noise. That's why advertisers are so interested in targeted advertising.
Advertisers don’t sell ads, they buy them.
Ask the company who uses lots of nails whether hammers work.
I mean maybe the purchaser employee at the company has some conflict of interest around the question -- if they're specialized in evaluating and negotiating hammer purchases they'll not want the company to switch to screws.
But the company as a whole seems to have no vested interest in promoting hammers. They presumably want to sell the stuff they make with hammers and may lie to you about how awesome those products are. But lie about hammers? Why?
Just because someone believes it works doesn't mean it does.
Ad companies sell ads.
Advertisers purchase ads.
Users see ads.
That’s it.
Let me see if I can punch through your reading comprehension issues.
Coca-Cola spent over 4 billion dollars in advertising in 2019 [1], I guess if you asked them if they believe in advertisement they will tell you that they do.
Coca-Cola doesn't rely on you *believing* that advertisement work, they *believe* advertisement works.
I do not know if advertisement works personally, I am guessing that Coca-Cola believes it does and that they have reason to believe so.
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/286526/coca-cola-advertising-spending-worldwide/